I remember a TV show years ago (I think it was an episode of The Dukes of Hazzard) where they took someone's prized Rolls Royce to a wrecking yard, removed that beautiful chrome grill, and crushed the car into a block that the grill fit on. They then returned what was left to its previous location. When my X got full swing into "herself", she bought a 15 year old Mercedes S class- she called it her gift to herself. Yeah, I wanted to do things to it but earlier this year the tranny went out. She took it for repair but when they were done she could not afford the $3600 bill. They sold the car out from under her. She still owes on it.